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Ironclad

Ironclads were big, heavy wooden ships covered by iron or steel plates

It was great for blockades, but were very hard to move.

Sectionalism

Quarter Master

A quarter master is an army officer who provides clothing and supplies for soldiers.

Sectionalism is when your show exaggerated loyalty to one's own area of the country rather than the nation.

Offensive War

The North was fighting an offensive war. This is when your are atracking first.

Unionist

Unionists were people who want to remain apart of the Union at all cost.

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Volunteer

Many of the wealthest people of the south volunteered to be generals in the Confederate army.

Popular Sovereignty

Popular sovereignty was when the people of a state got to vote whether or not they are to be a free state or slave state. This created bigger problems between the North and South.

Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee was a general in the Confederate Amry. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse to end the war.

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Dred Scott Decision

Dred Scott was born into slavery. The Dred Scott Decision was when Dred Scott went to court to obtain his and family's freedom because they lived in a free state, so he claimed they were free. The St. Louis Circuit Court agreed, but the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the decision. Claiming that blacks could not be U.S. citizens.

Louisiana Purchase

Missouri Compromise of 1820

The Louisiana Purchase expanded the US westward. The people that moved into the California territory discovered gold and then led to The Compromise of 1850.

Nullification Crisis

This was an argument between John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson over States' Rights vs. a Strong National Government. This was a dispute over a Protective tariff. The tariff benefited the North. The South threatened to ignore this law.

In 1819, Missouri applied for statehood as a slave state, disrupting representation in Congress and the Senate. This allowed Missouri to enter with Maine to keep balance. The Mason-Dixon line was drawn 36 degree North latitude on Missouri's southern border. All territory North had to be free and the South was slave.

Kanasas-Nebraska Act

Emancipation Proclamation

This document stated that "slaves in States in Rebellion againist the US shall be forever free." Freeing the slaves in all of the confederacy would weaken the southern government.

The Kanasas-Nebraska Act would repeal the Missouri Compromise because it allowed Popular Sovereignty to decide if Kanasas would be free or slave state. This only increased tensions in the north and south

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John C. Calhoun

Total War

John C. Calhoun was the vice president of the United States, but later resigned. Calhoun agreed with states' rights introduced the idea of Secession

Total War or War of Attrition is when you destroy everything of value in your way. General William T. Sherman used this strategy in "Sherman's march to sea"

Battle of Bull Run

This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia.

The Battle of Bull Run convinced the Lincoln administration and the North that the Civil War would be a long and costly affair. McDowell was relieved of command of the Union army and replaced by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, who set about reorganizing and training the troops.

Compromise of 1850

This compromise stated that California would be a free state, the Slave Trade was ended in the District of Columbia, New Mexico and Utah territories are added with a vote for slavery. This compromise allowed California to be a free state and not disrupt the balance in congress.

William T. Sherman

Abolitionist

An abolitionist is someone who wants to abolish or get rid of slavery.

Abolitionism was Important during the Civil War it involved state's rights. People in the south believed that they had a right to keep slaves, while people in north thought it was wrong. An abolitionist during this time would be Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Greenbacks

Greenbacks are paper currency which began to circulate in the North after February 1862 with the passage of the Legal Tender Act. Greenbacks showed a change in the currency while the north had Greenbacks, the south had the Confederate States dollar.

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist and during the American Civil War, a Union spy. She lead hundreds of enslaved people to freedom on the Undergroun Railroad.

Fire-Eaters

Fire-eaters were a group of pro-slavery Southern Democratic politicians who encouraged southern states to secede from the Union.